Education:

• 2015/08 ~ 2019/05    Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

  • Advisor: Prof. Chenming Hu; Co-Advisor: Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin

  • Dissertation: Compact Modeling of Advanced CMOS and Emerging Devices for Circuit Simulation

  • Overall GPA/Scale: 4.00/4.00

• 2013/09 ~ 2014/06    M.S. in Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University

  • Advisor: Prof. Jenn-Gwo Hwu

  • Thesis: Effect of Lateral Diffusion Current in Inversion I-V Characteristic of MOS Devices with Ultrathin Oxide and Its Applications

  • Overall GPA/Scale: 4.28/4.3

• 2010/09 ~ 2013/06    B.S. in Physics, National Taiwan University

  • Overall GPA/Scale: 4.183/4.3 (92.19/100)

  • Ranking: 1/65  (Total Credits: 164)

Working and Teaching Experiences:

• 2021/08 ~ Present    Sr. Hardware Engineer at Apple in Cupertino

• 2019/08 ~ 2021/08  Senior Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor in San Jose

• 2018/08 ~ 2018/12  Graduate Student Instructor of EE230C  (UC Berkeley)

• 2018/08 ~ 2018/12  Graduate Student Instructor of EE130/230A  (UC Berkeley)

• 2018/01 ~ 2018/05  Graduate Student Instructor of EE130/230A  (UC Berkeley)

• 2014/07 ~ 2015/07  Substitute Military Service (Education Service)

• 2014/03 ~ 2014/06  Course Teaching Assistant of Linear Algebra

• 2014/03 ~ 2014/06  Course Teaching Assistant of Undergraduate Special Project

• 2013/09 ~ 2014/01  Course Teaching Assistant of Calculus I

Research Experiences:

• 2015/08 ~ 2019/05    BSIM Group at UC Berkeley; Advisor: Prof. Chenming Hu

  • BSIM Compact Models for MOSFETs, FDSOI, FinFETs, LDMOS, GAAFET, TFETs, and NCFETs

  • Spin-Transfer-Torque (STT) Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) MRAM Compact Model

  • Negative Capacitance Transistors: reliability, design/optimization, TCAD modeling, and circuit benchmark

• 2012/03 ~ 2014/06  CV Lab at National Taiwan University; Advisor: Prof. Jenn-Gwo Hwu

  • Physics, characterization, and Fabrication of MOS Capacitors with Ultrathin (< 3 nm) Oxides

  • MOS Devices Applications: Solar Cells, Photodiodes and Tunneling Temperature Sensors

Technical Skills:

• Device and Process Simulators: TCAD (Silvaco Atlas/Victory, Synopsys Sentaurus)

• Programming Language: Python (TensorFlow, Keras, Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, SFrame), C++, (G)AWK

• Hardware Description Language: Verilog-A, Verilog

• Circuit Simulator: Hspice, Spectre, Virtuoso, Nanospice, SmartSpice, ICCAP

• Layout and RC Extraction Tools: Virtuoso, Laker, IC WorkBench, Clever

• Software Version Control: Git

• Semicondcutor Characterization: Keysight B1500A

• Others: Mathematica, MATLAB, Origin, LaTeX, Linux, MS Office, Keynote

• Habits: Chinese Calligraphy, Table Tennis, Swimming, Weight Training

Licenses and Certificates:

• Algorithms (Specialization), Coursera, 2020/11. [Credential]

• Financial Markets, Coursera, 2020/07. [Credential]

• TensorFlow in Practice (Specialization), Coursera, 2020/06. [Credential]

• Deep Learning Specialization, Coursera, 2020/04. [Credential]

• Machine Learning Specialization, Coursera, 2020/01. [Credential]

• Introduction to Data Science in Python, Coursera, 2019/09. [Credential]

Awards and Honors:

• Golden Reviewers of IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2021-2023

• Golden Reviewers of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2017–2023

• Study Abroad Scholarship of Ministry of Education of Taiwan, 2016–2018

• Best Master Thesis Award of Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering at NTU, 2014

• Youth Thesis Award of Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, 2014

• Lam Research Award, 2014

• Teaching Assistant Scholarship, 2013–2014

• Honorary Member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society (Master), 2014

• Honorary Member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society (Bachelor), 2013

• Ranked First (1/65) in the Department of Physics at NTU, 2013

• Presidential Awards (Five Times), 2010–2013

• Dean’s Award, 2013

• Mr. Hsiung-Chen Lin Memorial Scholarship, 2012

• Alumni Association Scholarship of Department of Physics at NTU, 2011